Oh, my friends, so many things have happened since we last got together. Most of them bad. But let’s try to forget them and immerse ourselves in our favorite show again, shall we?
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{sheepishly waves} Late again!

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Once again I apologize for posting this so very late. Real life has been disappointingly inconvenient lately. And then LJ wouldn’t let me post. For hours. But now, here we are!

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My recap/review of 15.05 will be late. Like, Monday night late. Way past the point where anyone is interested, most likely, but it’s important to keep the historical record intact so I’ll do it anyway. In the meanwhile, here is a different way that conversation in the Impala could have gone.

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THEN: Well, okay, the music is Bob Seger. And I like Bob Seger. But not this song. And they've used it before; I believe in the episode after Gadreel!Sam kills Kevin. So I'm starting off disappointed. Me and Sam, we've killed just about everything there is. Dean not killing Jack, but still looking awfully hot aiming the God Gun at him. Michael!Dean. Sam's beard! \o/ Oh, wait, SAM was the one who pushed Michael into the walk-in in Dean's brain? How did I not catch that? I am a Winchester! Sam's violent hug. John. And then some forgettable stuff and then SAM SHOOTING CHUCK. Welcome to the end.

Now. Bob Seger's still singing, and it doesn't seem like an appropriate song for this fight scene. Because we've obviously picked up right where we left off, with TFW fighting off the risen dead in the cemetery. Cas calls out to the brothers and then picks up Jack's corpse and I think he's making a run for it and leaving them to deal with the horde of undead, but they follow. Sam leads the way into a mausoleum. (The same one where Maggie and her pink pants ended up last season? Looks familiar.)

New title card!

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Yesterday I was blessed with the opportunity to watch 5.16, "Dark Side of the Moon," on TNT. The scene near the end, where the angel Joshua tells the Winchesters that God knows what's going on and isn't going to do anything and wants them to stop bugging him… well, it hits harder in light of what we learn about Chuck at the end of s14, doesn't it? At the time I thought Joshua was describing a God-the-clockmaker role, a God who just wanted to let his creation run on its own. But now we know that Chuck wasn't just declining to fix things for the Winchesters. He was actively setting them up and enjoying the drama. And yes, I'm sure the writers weren't thinking about how things would play out nine seasons later when they wrote that scene. It's just nice that the Continuity Fairy gave us this unintentional gift.





Other amazing things about this episode include: Dean having to watch Sam get shot, "I Wuv Hugz," Sam's kicked-puppy face, and "I'm dead"/"Condolences."

Another thing that struck me was how hard Pamela tried to get Dean to accept that if he let Michael use him as a vessel, the inevitable deaths of thousands (millions?) of people wasn't anything to be concerned about.

I know that Michael wants to take you out for a test drive… {snip} What happens if you play ball with them? Worst case.

A lot of people die.

And then they come here. Is that really so bad? Look. Maybe… you don't have to fight it so hard. That's all I'm trying to say.

And immediately after that conversation, Ash finds a "short cut to the Garden" that, oddly enough, opens right into the old Lawrence house where they'll be caught by Zachariah.

So I wondered why we ever thought any of this was real. Why we didn't all decide Pamela and Ash were both fabrications created by Zachariah. And then I realized that I had already come to this conclusion, and had ficced it. But where? It's not on my LJ anywhere. I think I posted it in the comments to someone else's post. Probably kalliel; I think she's the only one whose comments I abused in that particular manner. But I found it in my files, and I present it to you now. I don't know when I wrote it, but I see it was probably right after we met Joshua 2.0 in s14. Apparently it was in response to some discussion about Sam and Dean being soulmates with a shared Heaven:

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Let the countdown begin, my friends. We only get to do this 24 more times.

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